[78-L] How to Play Baseball

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jan 15 20:53:16 PST 2010


I have a very beat-up copy of it on Y-20 which as I recall was also pressed 
from original parts, even in Canada. Come to think of it, my vinyl "Pinocchio" 
set and Vaughn de Leath's "Ducklings On Parade" are also master pressings.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I have Y-20....I don't know if there's a Y series shellac version, but that
> coupling first saw the light of day in the regular black label pop series on
> 26399.  (When were these sides recorded?  Looks to be about 1938.)  My Y-20
> is pressed from metal parts made from the original matrices, but the
> original catalogue numbers have been rubbed out and 45-5106 A (or B) stamped
> in place.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:25 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> A lot of the Y series were reissues, from as little as a year earlier..the
>> 1948
>> catalog shows a number of sets on unbreakable and on shellac. Many of us
>> have
>> probably never seen the shellac versions because they were in print a short
>> time and also because they were on that crappy mid 40s stuff that broke as
>> you
>> looked at it. "Erbert's 'Appy Birthday" is Y-324, Standard and Y-346
>> unbreakable.
>>
>> Victor also used different numbering series for these albums, something
>> which
>> doesn't seem to have anything to do with the number of discs in the set,
>> but
>> maybe to do with full albums vs sleeves or "showpiece" packaging.."Jingle
>> Bells
>> Fantasy" is Y-20, unbreakable, and "Hello I'm Adeline" (some ghastly thing
>> about a doll that still haunts me 55 years later) is a 2-disc set and it's
>> Y-22. <snip>
>> dl
>>
>> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>>




More information about the 78-L mailing list